ASANO Toyomi is a professor of political history of Japan at the Department of Political Science and Economics at Waseda University, Tokyo. He affiliated with the Woodrow Wilson Center from February until the end of July 2015 as a Formal Fellow. He graduated from doctoral course at the Graduate School of Advanced Social and International Studies at Tokyo University in 1998, inaugurated to be a professor at Chukyo University in 2000, receiving a Ph.D. from Tokyo University in 2009. He had also been affiliated with Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Harvard University as a visiting fellow from 1994- 1995, the Modern Chinese History Research Center in Academica Sinica in Taiwan 1999, Sigur Center in Elliot School of George Washington University 2006-2007, Asiatic Research Center in Korea University 2009 as a visiting scholar.
He won the 25th Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize in June 2009 and the Yoshida Shigeru Prize in March 2009 as an author of ‘Teikoku Nihon-no Shokuminchi Housei (Japanese Empire’s colonial legal system with a separate jurisdiction and imperial order)’ , Nagoya University Press, 2008. Another major English publication is ‘Regionalism or Imperialism: Japan’s Options toward a Protected Korea after the Russo-Japanese War, 1905-10,’ Pedro Iacobelli, Danton Leary, and Shinnosuke Takahashi, ed., Transnational Japan as History: Empire, Migration, Social Movements, London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2015."